If you were to cut a string to the length of your circle’ diameter, it WILL ALWAYS wrap around by 3.14159 (or π times).
Isn’t that backwards?
If you were to cut a string to the length of your circle’ diameter, it WILL ALWAYS wrap around by 3.14159 (or π times).
Isn’t that backwards?
Alteon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nope.
The equation is P=πD. Meaning the Perimeter is equal to 3.14 times the length of your Diameter.
You can visualize it here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lQfERPjkzk
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Right, so you’d need 3.14 strings of length D to cover the circle, D wouldn’t wrap around it itself.
Alteon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It was implied that it would wrap around the circle. I’ll update original post to clarify better.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah that’s what I gathered, but it’s backwards. C = Pi D means you need pi strings, not that it’ll cover the circle pi times.